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Going into the climate conference, the backdrop is demonstrating the extreme impacts of relying on fossil fuels -- to my mind, I think that could be enough to push some countries on the fence to really double down on renewables, i think The UK is The UK. The UK just came out and committed to fully decarbonize the electricity system by 2035. – Charles Moore	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The state is moving to cut red tape and mobilize all available resources to protect public health and the environment, asCalifornia continues to lead the nation in phasing out fossil fuels and combating the climate crisis, this incident serves as a reminder of the enormous cost fossil fuels have on our communities and the environment. – Gavin Newsom	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It was impossible to ignore climate change this summer, and unfortunately, this isn't a one-time thing... this is what Concerned Scientists can expect more of, especially if Concerned Scientists don't get off fossil fuels and invest in measures to build Concerned Scientists resilience as soon as possible. – Rachel Licker	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'm very eco-conscious, i've got my solar and my geothermal in my house and I don't want to burn fossil fuels. – Bart Schoenfeld	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It will help our climate agenda if the fossil fuel industry and lobbyists know they're under a magnifying glass, it's to try to get the climate disinformation to stop so we can have legislation pass the House and Senate to tackle the climate crisis. – Ro Khanna	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The well-preserved tail feathers in this new fossil bird provide great new information about how sexual selection has shaped the avian tail from their earliest stage, the complexity we see in Yuanchuavis's feathers is related to one of the reasons we hypothesize why living birds are so incredibly diverse, because they can separate themselves into different species just by differences in plumage and differences in song. – Wang Min	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Gas is a fossil fuel, and any investment into gas today risks becoming a stranded asset. And while interest in green hydrogen has grown exponentially, there is still a large number of hydrogen projects in the pipeline where it's produced from gas, hydrogen produced from gas still produces carbon, and is inconsistent with reaching net zero. – Bill Hare	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Whereas we expected that spiders had maternal instincts from their very beginning, it is, nevertheless, very nice to have actual physical evidence from the fossil record about 100 million years ago. – Paul Selden	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We fully understand the role that coal and other fossil fuels have played in Australia's economy, even if mining accounts for a small fraction — around 2 % — of overall jobs, but it's essential to have a broader, more honest and rational conversation about what is in Australia's interests, because the bottom line is clear : If the world does not rapidly phase out coal, climate change will wreak havoc right across the Australian economy, from agriculture to tourism, and right across the services sector. Similarly, construction, housing and the property sector, in a country where the vast majority live on or near a coastline. It will be even more catastrophic in your neighborhood. – Selwin Hart	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The Federal Police of Brazil was investigating a fossil trade operation and recovered, in 2013, over 3.000 specimens, fossils in Brazil are protected by law, as they are part of the geological heritage of the country. Therefore, collecting fossils requires permission, and the trade and private collections of fossils are illegal in Brazil. – Victor Beccari	Found on CNN 2 years ago
What we do in the next few years will determine what kind of world we have, what kind of world we leave for our children, we must rapidly switch to clean energy, stop fossil fuel carbon pollution, and then methane leaks. – Lisa DeVille	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The genus name, Thapunngaka, incorporates thapun [ ta-boon ] and ngaka [ nga-ga ], the Wanamara words for' spear' and' mouth', respectively, the species name, shawi, honours the fossil's discoverer Len Shaw, so the name means' Shaw's spear mouth'. – Steve Salisbury	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I serendipitously came across a few very rare examples of the material during my unrelated PhD research, long ago, on fossil microbial reefs, when I became a professor and had my own grants, I was able to return to the field sites and collect more material so that I had a more robust collection to work from. – Elizabeth Turner	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The fossil record of animal life is something that many people are interested in and in particular, when animals first evolved on Earth, the big discussion has been, was there animal life in a significant way in the pre-Cambrian before the Cambrian explosion or not. – David Bottjer	Found on CNN 2 years ago
They are using the language of climate so much more in their official rhetoric, their strategic documents, but the problem is their implementation is going in the opposite direction, they're doubling down on fossil fuel production over the next decade. – Heather Conley	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There are huge biases in the fossil record due to a number of factors (mainly geographical and economical, but also more personal biases like palaeontologists focusing on looking for one species for example, like Tyrannosaurus), the fact that multiple groups of scientists working on the exact same question at the same time can come up with completely opposite results further enforces this, that there is a great need for further data collection, i.e. digging up more dinosaurs and finding out where they lived and how successful they truly were. – Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The Harbin skull is the most important fossil I've seen in 50 years. It shows how important East Asia and China is in telling the human story. – Chris Stringer	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We've only just begun what will be years of studying this fascinating fossil. – Chris Stringer	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The Australian government has stewardship of one of the world's most precious and iconic ecosystems, but The Great Barrier Reef continued support for fossil fuels and its lack of effective climate policy means it's utterly failing to live up to that responsibility. – Climate Council	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country, i want to ask why is it OK for me to talk about the influence of the NRA, of fossil fuel industries, or big pharma, and not talk about a powerful lobbying movement that is influencing policy. – Israel Omar	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
At some point, we may not need fossil fuels, we can get by without it. We're not there. All the planes, trains and automobiles that run almost all use fossil fuels. And if this was going to help keep that cost down for production of products and travel and everything else, that's a lot of dollars in the United States that would have been saved. – Bart Ramsey	Found on CNN 2 years ago
People here are going to bear the biggest front of this pipeline. This nation needs to end its dependence on fossil fuels. But more importantly, it needs to honor its agreements it made long ago with Indigenous people, and I am here to support that. – Taylor Schilling	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Alaska’s senators voted for Deb Haaland. … [She] has a very clear track record of her beliefs, her hatred for the fossil fuel industry, this is just the beginning. – Daniel Turner	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I don't think it's a secret that the Trump administration was focused on advancing fossil fuels and not renewable energy projects. Whether it was intentional or not, there was a stagnation of the process, the President Biden administration has convened an all-of-government approach to offshore wind, which we've never seen before. – Bill White	Found on CNN 2 years ago

Going into the climate conference, the backdrop is demonstrating the extreme impacts of relying on fossil fuels -- to my mind, I think that could be enough to push some countries on the fence to really double down on renewables, i think The UK is The UK. The UK just came out and committed to fully decarbonize the electricity system by 2035.

– Charles Moore

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The state is moving to cut red tape and mobilize all available resources to protect public health and the environment, asCalifornia continues to lead the nation in phasing out fossil fuels and combating the climate crisis, this incident serves as a reminder of the enormous cost fossil fuels have on our communities and the environment.

– Gavin Newsom

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was impossible to ignore climate change this summer, and unfortunately, this isn't a one-time thing... this is what Concerned Scientists can expect more of, especially if Concerned Scientists don't get off fossil fuels and invest in measures to build Concerned Scientists resilience as soon as possible.

– Rachel Licker

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm very eco-conscious, i've got my solar and my geothermal in my house and I don't want to burn fossil fuels.

– Bart Schoenfeld

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It will help our climate agenda if the fossil fuel industry and lobbyists know they're under a magnifying glass, it's to try to get the climate disinformation to stop so we can have legislation pass the House and Senate to tackle the climate crisis.

– Ro Khanna

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The well-preserved tail feathers in this new fossil bird provide great new information about how sexual selection has shaped the avian tail from their earliest stage, the complexity we see in Yuanchuavis's feathers is related to one of the reasons we hypothesize why living birds are so incredibly diverse, because they can separate themselves into different species just by differences in plumage and differences in song.

– Wang Min

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Gas is a fossil fuel, and any investment into gas today risks becoming a stranded asset. And while interest in green hydrogen has grown exponentially, there is still a large number of hydrogen projects in the pipeline where it's produced from gas, hydrogen produced from gas still produces carbon, and is inconsistent with reaching net zero.

– Bill Hare

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Whereas we expected that spiders had maternal instincts from their very beginning, it is, nevertheless, very nice to have actual physical evidence from the fossil record about 100 million years ago.

– Paul Selden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We fully understand the role that coal and other fossil fuels have played in Australia's economy, even if mining accounts for a small fraction — around 2 % — of overall jobs, but it's essential to have a broader, more honest and rational conversation about what is in Australia's interests, because the bottom line is clear : If the world does not rapidly phase out coal, climate change will wreak havoc right across the Australian economy, from agriculture to tourism, and right across the services sector. Similarly, construction, housing and the property sector, in a country where the vast majority live on or near a coastline. It will be even more catastrophic in your neighborhood.

– Selwin Hart

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Federal Police of Brazil was investigating a fossil trade operation and recovered, in 2013, over 3.000 specimens, fossils in Brazil are protected by law, as they are part of the geological heritage of the country. Therefore, collecting fossils requires permission, and the trade and private collections of fossils are illegal in Brazil.

– Victor Beccari

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What we do in the next few years will determine what kind of world we have, what kind of world we leave for our children, we must rapidly switch to clean energy, stop fossil fuel carbon pollution, and then methane leaks.

– Lisa DeVille

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The genus name, Thapunngaka, incorporates thapun [ ta-boon ] and ngaka [ nga-ga ], the Wanamara words for' spear' and' mouth', respectively, the species name, shawi, honours the fossil's discoverer Len Shaw, so the name means' Shaw's spear mouth'.

– Steve Salisbury

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I serendipitously came across a few very rare examples of the material during my unrelated PhD research, long ago, on fossil microbial reefs, when I became a professor and had my own grants, I was able to return to the field sites and collect more material so that I had a more robust collection to work from.

– Elizabeth Turner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The fossil record of animal life is something that many people are interested in and in particular, when animals first evolved on Earth, the big discussion has been, was there animal life in a significant way in the pre-Cambrian before the Cambrian explosion or not.

– David Bottjer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They are using the language of climate so much more in their official rhetoric, their strategic documents, but the problem is their implementation is going in the opposite direction, they're doubling down on fossil fuel production over the next decade.

– Heather Conley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There are huge biases in the fossil record due to a number of factors (mainly geographical and economical, but also more personal biases like palaeontologists focusing on looking for one species for example, like Tyrannosaurus), the fact that multiple groups of scientists working on the exact same question at the same time can come up with completely opposite results further enforces this, that there is a great need for further data collection, i.e. digging up more dinosaurs and finding out where they lived and how successful they truly were.

– Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Harbin skull is the most important fossil I've seen in 50 years. It shows how important East Asia and China is in telling the human story.

– Chris Stringer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We've only just begun what will be years of studying this fascinating fossil.

– Chris Stringer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Australian government has stewardship of one of the world's most precious and iconic ecosystems, but The Great Barrier Reef continued support for fossil fuels and its lack of effective climate policy means it's utterly failing to live up to that responsibility.

– Climate Council

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country, i want to ask why is it OK for me to talk about the influence of the NRA, of fossil fuel industries, or big pharma, and not talk about a powerful lobbying movement that is influencing policy.

– Israel Omar

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

At some point, we may not need fossil fuels, we can get by without it. We're not there. All the planes, trains and automobiles that run almost all use fossil fuels. And if this was going to help keep that cost down for production of products and travel and everything else, that's a lot of dollars in the United States that would have been saved.

– Bart Ramsey

Found on CNN
2 years ago

People here are going to bear the biggest front of this pipeline. This nation needs to end its dependence on fossil fuels. But more importantly, it needs to honor its agreements it made long ago with Indigenous people, and I am here to support that.

– Taylor Schilling

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Alaska’s senators voted for Deb Haaland. … [She] has a very clear track record of her beliefs, her hatred for the fossil fuel industry, this is just the beginning.

– Daniel Turner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don't think it's a secret that the Trump administration was focused on advancing fossil fuels and not renewable energy projects. Whether it was intentional or not, there was a stagnation of the process, the President Biden administration has convened an all-of-government approach to offshore wind, which we've never seen before.

– Bill White

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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